Juneau East Division

Juneau East Division
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Serving the White, Green, Maritime, and Smoky Mountains
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Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Welcome to the Juneau East Division



You have arrived at Mountain Air's new Juneau East Division site, a division of Juneau's Worldwide Cargo. We at PAJN have received new contracts to fly regional cargo, mail, and sportsmen out of several locations to rural mountain and seacost destinations:



  • White Mountains -Concord, NH - KCON (to White and Green Mountain
  • New England & Maritime Provinces
  • Southeast - Gatlinburg, TN - KGKT (Smoky and Apalachian Mountain locations)

We fly Express Cargo and mail in our larger fleet aircraft as new assignments arrive:
  • New Hampshire's "Pease Trade Port" (KPSM), formerly Pease AFB to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Sable Island and other maritime destinations.
  • (KPSM) to Westover AFB (KCEF)(we're not sure what we're carrying)
  • Manchester-Boston (KMHT) to Loring Intl (121U)
We invite any of you who enjoy flying the Smoky, Green, or White Mountains to fly with us. You are welcome to try a route or mission and see how you like it. Leave your comments and we'll post those that are helpful on our new Division Newsletter. Also, please send any route or mission photos by way of my email address: PAJNeast@msn.com.

If you develop a route or mission, be sure to send it to me also and if I approve it, we'll add it to our roster and grant you some hours. You can receive hours for photos too. Check out those we have at the PAJN screenshots page. That's what we're looking for here on the Divsion East page.

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SouthEast Routes & Missions


Mission 1 {MA SEM1} .7hr



  • Deliver emergency blood supply
  • Set user-defined weather: ceiling overcast 5800 to 11,000. Light rain.
    With low ceilings, take off from Gatlinburg-PigeonForge (KGKT) in NC . Climb to 5,400. Fly VFR heading 089 to Mountain Air (29U). Be sure to keep a MSA of 5700' approaching 29U. Be careful not to wander up into the ceiling at 5800. Land on Rwy14. Then turn around, take off and continue on your previous heading of 089. You should arrive at Avery in about 15 minutes after TO. The entire flight is around 40-50min, depending on winds and how much you get turned around or lost. This is a pretty east, straight forward mission though.

    New England Routes & Missions


    Route 1 [NER1] 1.7hr (in good weather)


    Fly mail and hospital supplies from Concord (KCON) to Eastern Slopes Regional(KIZG)[Leg 1-27min], to Berlin (KBML) [Leg 2-16min], to Lebanon (KLBN) [Leg 3-34min.] - Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Ctr. and return to Concord (KCON) [Leg4-22min]. You may be in the virtual simworld, but don't try to take the short-cut through CONDOR Military Airspace or you may be accompanied by F-18s to Loring for a brief interview, not to mention being met on the tarmack by FAA and military officers (though you will be their guest, no band will be playing either). [Aircraft of Choice: BA-146-200].

    Mission 1 [NEM1] .6hr
    MedAir flights have been contracted out to PAJN East's Mountain Air pilots. We have a reputation for being the best in North America when it comes to mountain flying. MedAir has stationed an Aircraft at Concord (KCON). The route is to fly important equipment and a heart specialist from Concord to Lebanon's Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital. A young child needs emergency heart surgery. You will be cleared straight in on Rwy 18 (ILS 111.9). One difficulty: you must set your weather for a ceiling of 3500 ft overcast with light precip. Your altitude to KLEB is 6000. You're flying IFR. Be careful not to enter Yankee One to the north of KLEB. Good luck!! You'll need it. The child doesn't have time for a missed approach either.


    Route 2a [NER2a] 1.4hr



    Fresh lobster is being flown from Pease International Trade Ctr. (KPSM) to Halifax (CYHZ)[Leg 1]. If you choose, you can take on cargo and continue on to CYYG [Leg 2], then return to KPSM [Leg 3]. where you can remain overnight and enjoy the next day off. Otherwise from Halifax you can step up to the plate and fly mission 3 (MA NEM3).



    Mission 3 [NEM3] 1.1hr


    Special weather equipment is needed on Sable Island. You must get it there before evening, because there is no runway there, no lighting, and a huge storm has been tracked on Doppler heading east to west. With the hurricane season in full swing, that equipment is crucial (the crew there is also hoping that their mail, Starbucks whole-bean coffee, and several cases of Kaliber, non-alcoholic beer will make it there BEFORE the storm socks them in for many days.) Since Sable doesn't show up in the airport choices in FS9, simply take off from Halifax and fly a heading of 130 at 3,000'. Use either the Beachcraft Baron (as long as you have it refitted with special oversized balloon tires for a beach landing) OR you can fly the deHaviland (amphibian). When you are approx. 35 minutes from Halifax, you can pick up the morse code of NDB/ADF 277.0 located on Sable. The ADF will take you right to the south side of the beach where you can make a water landing. Make sure to use shift+E to lower your rudders for steering in the surf. When you taxi toward the tower, if you lower your landing gear just before coming ashore, you can taxi right up the the tower shack where the Station Chief, Gerry Forbes, will greet you (you already have his clearance to land because he's the one who requested Mountain Air to scramble the aircraft with his equipment). Be careful not to run over any seals or to spook the many wild horses. He takes a dim view of careless pilots. If you need windage info before landing Gerry will drive his truck out to the beach. He has a windsock on his antena and you can reach him via the special frequency you'll be given enroute. Good Luck. [If you want to make this mission more than a walk in the park, Set the weather as overcast, ceiling at 1500, ' with 10 mi. visibility; wind gusts to 45. Use the GPS to see the island, until you're able to fly VFR].


    You might also like to pick up the book Sable Island by De Villiers & Hirtle. It's on "My Current Reading" list and is VERY interesting. Just visit the site and click on the title link to order.

    Route 4a [NER4a] .8hr


    Fly unknown cargo from Pease International Trade Ctr. (KPSM) to Westover Metro(KCEF). The return is NER4b. If you do BOTH in one day, log it as "NER4ab"

    Route 5a [NER5a] 1.0hr (above 10,000)


    Fly secret freight from Pease International Trade Ctr. (KPSM) to Loring (ME16). The return is NER5b. If you do BOTH in one day, log it as "NER5ab"